Title & Author:

Early American rooms : a consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch / with articles by Frederick Lewis Allen, Roland Mather Hooker, Elliot W. Bisbee, J. Frederick Kelly, Joseph Everett Chandler, Russell Hawes Kettell, Kenneth John Conant, Bernhard Knollenberg, George Francis Dow, Charles Nagel, Jr., Joseph Downs, Frederick A. Sweet, Allen French, Thomas Tileston Waterman, Hollis French, Samuel W. Woodhouse, Jr., Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Edwin B. Worthen, Edwin J. Hipkiss, Philip N. Youtz ; Russell Hawes Kettell, editor.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1967

Description:

xvii, 200 pages, 41 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: Portland, Me. : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1936.
At the end of each of the twelve chapters are two pages, not included in the pagination, containing newspaper items that once appeared within the dates given in the caption, reprinted in such form as will carry out the spirit of their original typography and arrangement.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The mediaeval character of seventeenth-century New England houses / Russell Hawes Kettell ; historical note by George Francis Dow ; illustrations by Nelson Chase -- Rural New England in the early seventeen hundreds / Russell Hawes Kettell ; historical note by Allen French ; illustrations by Edna C. Rogers -- Classic columns reach the New England villages / Kenneth John Conant ; historical note by Elliot W. Bisbee ; illustrations by Edna C. Rogers -- The early days of the Connecticut colony / J. Frederick Kelly ; historical note by Roland Mather Hooker -- The rich detail of the Connecticut Valley / Charles Nagel, Jr. ; historical note by Roland Mather Hooker ; illustrations by Edna C. Rogers and Helen Johanson -- The hospitality of a New England inn / Joseph Everett Chandler ; historical note by Edwin B. Worthen ; illustrations by Nelson Chase -- New York Dutch households of the eighteenth century / Philip N. Youtz ; historical note by Frederick A. Sweet ; illustrations by Edna C. Rogers -- The grand manner in Philadelphia / Joseph Downs ; historical note by Samuel W. Woodhouse, Jr. ; illustrations by Eva Melady -- An assembly room of Washington's time / Thomas Tileston Waterman ; historical note by Berhard Knollenberg ; illustrations by Frances Burr -- Square-rigger prosperity / Edwin J. Hipkiss ; historical note by Hollis French ; illustrations by Nelson Chase -- The Empire style in America / Joseph Downs ; historical note by Frederick A. Sweet ; illustrations by Eva Melady -- Mid-Victorian America / Talbot Faulkner Hamlin ; historical note by Frederick Lewis Allen ; illustrations by Eva Melady.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0486216330
9780486216331

Subject:

Interior decoration.
Furniture, Early American History.
Interior decoration United States.
Furniture United States.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Décoration intérieure.
Meubles anciens États-Unis Histoire.
Décoration intérieure États-Unis.
Furniture
Furniture, Early American
Manners and customs
Furniture United States History
United States Social life and customs Pictorial works.
United States Social life and customs.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes.
United States

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Kettell, Russell Hawes.
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954, author.
Dow, George Francis, 1868-1936, author.
French, Allen, 1870-1946, author.
Bisbee, Elliot W., author.
Hooker, Roland Mather, 1900- author.
Worthen, Edwin B., 1879-1956, author.
Sweet, Frederick A. (Frederick Arnold), 1903-1984, author.
Woodhouse, Samuel Washington, 1875- author.
Knollenberg, Bernhard, 1892-1973, author.
French, Hollis, 1868-1940, author.
Chase, Nelson, illustrator.
Rogers, Edna C., illustrator.
Kelly, J. Frederick (John Frederick), 1888-1947, illustrator.
Kelly, Henry S., illustrator.
Johanson, Helen, illustrator.
Melady, Eva, illustrator.
Burr, Frances, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 124921
Call No.: W5836; ID:86-B5571
Status: Available